How Could Genomics Bring Precision Medicine To Healthcare?

We strongly believe that only digital health can bring healthcare into the 21st century and make patients the point-of-care. In the previous centuries, healthcare systems focused mainly on working out generalized solutions for treating ill people in as high numbers as possible. If cough syrup was good for the majority of the coughing masses and only two people had a rash as an allergic reaction to it, there was no question about treating a sore throat with cough syrup. Experience and empirical evidence on a generalized basis was the working method of the medical community since Hippocrates until around the beginning of the 20th century.Evidence-based medicine turned around the practice of relying on the wisdom of past doctors and traditions. As a consequence, nowadays physicians not only prescribe some pills because their ancestors used to do the same, but they proved the efficacy of treatments and diagnostic methods with the help of scientific tools, e.g., clinical studies. Research evidence and practical experience show why a sore throat is best treated with cough syrup, what are the side effects and how that could also be treated or avoided. Moreover, these pieces of evidence and experience are collected in clinical practice guidelines for every condition and every clinician. These guidelines are regularly updated as the latest studies andor the results of clinical trials get published.